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Oopsie! Bush is in Northern Kentucky and had to tell his Sturm Truppen that he wants all Americans to speak English like himself! Of course, this will destroy the English language but he doesn't care, let's put food on our families!

By SUZANNE GAMBOA, Associated Press Writer 35 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The White House took both sides in a dispute over English being the national language Friday as a broad immigration bill moved toward a final Senate vote next week with one conservative predicting it will never become law.

Bush's support for the dueling sides doesn't stray from his long-held view on learning English, said White House press secretary Tony Snow.

"What the president has said all along is that he wants to make sure that people who become American citizens have a command of the English language," Snow said. "It's as simple as that."

So if one can't command English, one gets deported?

Good idea. I wonder what country would want Bush? England? Blair loves Bush and Bush claims to be related to the Queen. Let her have him.

This is like the Bushes talking about reading books when Bush seems utterly illiterate or at least can't understand what he reads. Or like talking about sobriety while staggering around drunk. Or talking about Christian families raising godly children while the kids carreen about drunk, on drugs and breaking the law.

Talking law and order while committing crimes is right up the Bush alley.

Anyway, this is setting the racist GOP's teeth on edge. They loved it when Powell played House Slave for Bush. They could sneer at him behind his back and snipe at him in his face and Bush would call him funny names and the white good ole boys would lounge around the porch with mint julippes, feeling superior.

Then when Condi came in, she is Bush's backroom black female "friend" who accidentally called him "my husband" when talking about Massa. Of course, if Massa divorced his wife and married the staff downstairs....that would blow a lot of right wing wigs.

So Bush has to massage these people while hanging out with the staff. He has to pretend he isn't friends with the staff but is cynically using them and when Bush is with regular, non racists, he has to pretend the GOP loves them thar servants, rahllly. And wants them to be happy, singing slaves, lalala.

We don't know what Bush really thinks. He doesn't think. He is a bundle of nerves. If only he could escape from his own traps. After all, the tendency of most rich people is to not be racist or antigay but quite the opposite, they have nothing to fear from minorities, merely, they need to appeal to racists in order to keep themselves in power and give themselves tax cuts! I bet Bush really wishes he could endorse gay or cross-race marriage. Seriously.

My distant ancestors spoke English. But they fled to Holland to escape the fury of the last Stuart King. They came up the Hudson Valley and still spoke English only they also talked to the Dutch alot, were friends of the van Rensselaers, indeed, when that family arrived up here in the Albany area, we put them up in our frontier home! America has always been multilingual, ask the natives who greeted us here!

By Dan Whitcomb 42 minutes ago
HOUSTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush has long opposed making English the country's national language, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said on Friday, the day after the Senate voted to do so.

The vote came in an amendment to proposed legislation overhauling U.S. immigration law and directed the government to "preserve and enhance" the role of English. Opponents said it could affect the status of some multilingual services offered by government organizations.

Adding to the confusion, the Senate also adopted a softer amendment calling English the "unifying language" of the United States. Senators take both versions into negotiations over a final bill with the U.S. House of Representatives.

Gonzales did not directly address Bush's position on the controversial amendment because the Senate has not yet voted on the whole bill. But he said that Bush has in the past rejected such efforts.

"The president has never supported making English the national language," Gonzales said after meeting with state and local officials in Texas to discuss cooperation on enforcement of immigration laws.

Of course, Bush doesn't like any language known to us. He talks like an alien from outerspace, groping to understand the concept of "grammar" and "syntax." Politically, this is probably part of his "we just flew off the cliff so why not throw all caution to the wind" impulse. Namely, he is so unpopular it doesn't matter anymore what he does. So why not just do what he wants! This is probably why Laura blurted out that she doesn't want to see the gay marriage issue used as a weapon, for example.

Next, Bush and Laura will come out for abortion. All the right wing positions they held were totally fake. Bush isn't a Christian, either. So I expect him to put on a black robe, and run around a church widdershins screaming, "Jesus is dead!" next.

A lot of Hitler's public stuff was fake, too. Many of the really horrible, twisted, Freudian messy sex and magical belief stuff was top secret and carefully hidden from view until the bitter end. We take it for granted as if this was what all Germans saw. Sort of like today, the entire reason we have propaganda lies all the time is to put forth a fake facade.

Like Bush's war record. He went AWOL. This was kept top secret until a bunch of us online critics uncovered it and forced it into the open. So then the propaganda machine tore down real war heroes so they wouldn't get in Bush's tax cutting way.

Well, like Nixon, Bush is falling down, down, down.

And like Nixon, he will do as he pleases until Congress hands him an order to resign or be impeached. Clinton was popular when Starr and the GOP tried to sully his name using a stupid sex act that 90% of the men on this planet want, heck, make it 99%, and the fake fury over this simply made our nation look foolish. In Bush's case, if he and Cheney were asked to leave, most Americans would cheer heartily and push him out the door.

This whole flap about language is funny. My first husband's granny was a Yiddish speaking Kiev Jewish lady. Because I know medieval German which is very close to Yiddish, with a dictionary of Yiddish slang, I could talk to her. She spoke maybe ten words of English after living in America for 75 years! But all her older neighbors spoke Yiddish! I was the one who had to learn their language.

Her son spoke Yiddish, German, Greek, Latin and English. He was the first one in the family to earn an university degree. He become a publisher (fairly famous in his circles). Not one of his sons spoke fluent Yiddish, they had only a few sayings.

And so it goes! My father's great grandfather spoke only German. He married a Yiddish lady and had to leave Germany because his father disowned him. My father speaks and reads German and I had to take lessons to learn to speak German. So many Germans came to America, back in the 1890's there was fear that German would displace English! Most science texts were in German! One had to learn German if one wanted to be a scientist. Many professors were German speakers.

The Italians frightened English speakers, too. Ditto, Polish. And the Norse languages! The pastor of our Lutheran Church in Wisconsin spoke Norweigan and English. His sermons were in both languages. It was fun listening to him.

Because of our international travels and dealings, we hung out at home in between trips, joining immigrant community affairs in preparation for the next trip. So I got to appreciate Indian food and language, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, whatever, including Mexican.

I love Mexican cuisine. When I lived in Germany, kids would ask me to cook Mexican dishes and my mother would ship me boxes with refried beans and other ingredients. I love Mariachi music and Spanish dance. I love so many things in that culture and I think people bringing it here are enriching America.

Ditto for everyone. I love Greek food and I am friends with a family running a Turkish diner and I love sushi and visit a Japanese owned sushi diner, etc. I also love Wisconsin Norwegian food, jello! HEH. Inside joke.

Anyway, every group that comes here gives us a lot and I really like this fact, this is what makes our country a fun place to be! By far and away!

Once, after my son and I read some stories about Africa, I had to take the bus to Bedford-Sty to do some business. Soon, everyone on the street was of African ancestory and there were colorful flags and signs and the smell of that continent's cuisine filled the bus. Some Muslim women came onto the bus and my son shouted, "Mommy! We're in Africa!" The ladies laughed to see his enthusiasm and cooed over him.

Much of the world learns English as the dominant language. It is sad watching people here run around in fear of losing English especially when so many of them really don't master any language at all at this point. Pathetic.

I took the news photo of Bush snarling, "I wasn't trolling" and drew his face exactly as it was in the photo. He is correct about not being a troll. He is Gollum in the Lord of the Rings. And he has the Ring of Power.

President Bush said Thursday the government is "not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans" with a reported program to create a massive database of U.S. phone calls.

"Our efforts are focused on links to al Qaeda and their known affiliates," Bush said. "The privacy of ordinary Americans is fiercely protected in all our activities.

Obviously, Bush is no Gimli the Dwarf so he couldn't be mining. Nor is he an orc. Orcs at least work hard at night, they can do long marches and die in battle without complaining unlike this clown.

No, Bush is Smeagol/Gollum. He fits like a glove. He likes to catch fisssshes. He runs around, pointlessly. Can't sit still for even five minutes. He hates people. Yessss. Precious. Gollum. Poor W.

He talks funny, too. Even orcs when drunk make some sense. They speak a common language. And forget the Nazguls. They are like Chertoff. Every time Chertoff comes into the cave to tell Bush/Gollum what the next terror plans are, poor Bush's hands hurt and his eyes cry, Precioussss. He has to run off to the pond and catch another fisssssh. Yessss.

When Smeagol/W was a young sprat, he wanted to be brave like Frodo only he couldn't. Poor Smeagol/W! Cruel Vietnamese. We hates them. We run from them. We want to throttle them, yesss, Precious.

Poor Smeagol had to hide for three years. During that time, he took drugs and ran around chasing females. Poor Smeagol. Then he had to lie about it all. Yesss.

So here we are, Gollum got the Ring of Power. And he commands the Nazgul and he rules over much of Middle East Earth and everyone hates him, poor f...king Smeagol! They want to kill him. They are fighting him all the time and making fun of him, even the orcs in the Tower laugh at him as he scuttles around in the dark like a human cockroach.

Recently, the Tower Uruk Hai threw the Gollum Super Secret Travel Plans with those nasty Hobbits in the trash can! Why any elf could have walzed by and picked them up! Luckily, it was a lower level slave who returned them only he couldn't get inside the Tower so he gave the plans to Galadriel who published them online. So now poor Smeagol has to explain yet another FUBAR.

We'ssss hates them.

So now the Great Gollum has to explain why he spies on everyone. See, when Smeagol was a little boy, he spied on his ugly mom. She kicked him out of the hole so he went into the Cocaine Mountains and got trashed. While there, he found a Ring that made him invisible. So even if people see him they can't see him! Thanks to the media who pretends he isn't there when he is and vis versa, he managed to lurk around and kill people and eat babies.

It is a large file so give it time to load before playing it. This was filmed in the abandoned park that runs alongside the Upper West Side highway. It is marvelous up there, I used to run around there with my freak friends who lived in the Washington Heights back when very young. Nearby lies the Cloisters, one of our favorite haunts.

New York City has an amazing number of public parks that lie fallow. It is not a place to stroll alone but in a large group, can have its charms. We used to play the Lord of the Rings games in these parks, carrying boffers which are swords and such like which we made out of PVC pipe and pipe insulation. I loved playing the part of the dragon, for example. Bad guys have lots more fun in these games.

Last year, Bush's best, favorite day was 9/11. He often joked he "won the Trifecta" and Repubs would laugh. Now, it is suddenly his worst day. I hope the day he is arrested and charged with war crimes will be his worst day. And my best day.

- President Bush says his best moment in office was the time he caught a 7 1/2-pound largemouth bass.

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During his more than five years in office, Bush has traveled the world's most impressive cities, met with world leaders and entertained celebrities.

But when the German newspaper Bild asked him to name his best and worst moments as president, Bush gave an offbeat answer about the best moment, while giving a more predictable response about his worst.

"The most awful moment was September the 11th, 2001," Bush said, adding that it took time to understand the depth of the terrorist attacks on the United States. "I would say the toughest moment of all was after the whole reality sunk in and I was trying to help the nation understand what was going on, and at the same time, be empathetic for those who had lost lives."

Bush admitted it was not easy to pick a best moment because "I've had a lot of great moments," according to a transcript of the Friday interview released Sunday.

"I would say the best moment was when I caught a 7 1/2-pound largemouth bass on my lake," Bush said, laughing.

How about when this drunk dropped his little black doggie on the airport tarmac, knocking it out while he and his killer hausfrau laughed while children cried. Actually, his excuse on 9/11 for not doing squat diddly except read "My Pet Goat" was, he didn't want to scare the children. Yet after the WTC fell and the Pentagon was attacked, he put children behind him and then suddenly announced that America was under attack and the little tots burst into tears.

Great. That should have given him a whizz.

He looked utterly pleased in all the photos of him flying around the nation, avoiding us, on 9/11.

Now, he wants us to think that day was a terrible day for him. While fishing was a fun time. Well, why can't this clown row out into the lake and stay there. Won't hurt. Almost as good as going to jail.